Handling redirects with Express
How to redirect to other pages server-side
Redirects are common in Web Development. You can create a redirect using the Response.redirect()
method:
res.redirect('/go-there')
This creates a 302 redirect.
A 301 redirect is made in this way:
res.redirect(301, '/go-there')
You can specify an absolute path (/go-there
), an absolute url (https://anothersite.com
), a relative path (go-there
) or use the ..
to go back one level:
res.redirect('../go-there')
res.redirect('..')
You can also redirect back to the Referer HTTP header value (defaulting to /
if not set) using
res.redirect('back')
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